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Centre for the Study of Visual and Literary Cultures
University of Bristol
Sublimely Visual: The Art of the Text
5– 7 September 2008
Distinguished Plenary Speakers:
Professor Anne Freadman (University of Melbourne)
Professor Stephen Bann (University of Bristol)
In The Mottled Screen (1997) Mieke Bal complemented her rhetorical reading
of painting (Reading ‘Rembrandt’, 1991) with a visual reading of verbal
matter (Proust’s A la recherche). Bal’s adventurous study of the visual
properties and processes of the literary text urges us to move beyond the
traditional ut pictura poesis approach in order to develop a properly
generative reading of the visuality of writing.
The aim of this conference is to take forward new approaches in visual
reading. Among the questions to be addressed are: how does writing
receive or resist the textures and figures of visual media? How do
writers write colour and light? How are visual analogies translated,
transfigured or anticipated by the writer and by readers? Which new
directions in critical thought (in literature studies, art history, film
studies, and theory) can enhance our understanding of the interrelations
between visual art and writing? How does the art essay resist its
aesthetic object, and become a subject in and for itself? How do literary
texts enrich – or obstruct – our reading of art, and vice versa?
In broader terms, this conference will reflect on reciprocities, actual
and speculative, between visual culture and French, Francophone and
related literatures of the broad modern period. Our interpretation
of ‘visual culture’ is capacious, and will include art and art theory,
film, sculpture, photography, photojournalism, installation and
performance art, documentary, the art book, and the specific engagement of
writers with art and aesthetics.
Keywords: visual language, ekphrasis, colour, plasticity, framing,
perspective, light and line, landscape, portrait, typography, concrete
poetry, the translation of perception, figuration, viewing position,
visualising object and surface, painterly description, scale, detail, mise
en abyme, eye and I, gendered viewing, brouillage, abstraction, sequence
and simultaneity, new approaches to text/image studies
Proposals (circa 300 words; deadline 15 February 2008) should be sent,
preferably by e-mail attachment, to
Professor Susan Harrow
Department of French
University of Bristol
19 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TE
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The venue for the conference is the Burwalls Conference Centre in Leigh
Woods, located in a stunning setting overlooking the Clifton Suspension
Bridge. Registration details will be circulated in Spring 2008.
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